Education & Learning |
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A Parent's Guide to Grade Six, Seven, and Eight Children
It's 9:00pm Sunday evening and the house has grown suspiciously quiet. The seeming serenity is shattered by a yell from your grade six child's...
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Prepping for Kindergarten
If your child is beginning school in September, you are likely feeling a mixture of excitement and apprehension. Starting school is a major transition for children and their parents but there are some steps you can...
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Back-to-School: Get Organized and Get Ready for the Best School Year Ever
Starting to panic when you think of all the things that stand between you, the kids, and that first day of school? Becoming increasingly convinced...
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Beat the Back to School Blues
Coping with the fear of the unknown, meeting new teachers, plus the anxiety of being separated from parents and siblings are all bound to make children nervous when beginning - or returning to school. Specialists...
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Ontario Science Centre teaches kids how to be a super hero
Adventures at Toronto's Ontario Science Centre. Now you don't have to daydream about being a comic book Super Hero. You can actually be one. See...
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Slaying the Homework “Beast”
Fall means back to school, and though kids love to learn, most of them don’t love homework. The very word conjures up nasty images of monotonous exercises. Too often, the dreaded “homework...
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What Did You Learn in School Today?
"What did you learn in school today?" "Nothing." "Anything interesting happen? "Nope." "Did you like it?" "It was OK." Does getting your kids to offer...
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Back-to-School Survival Guide
Hey, moms and dads, it's back to school time again-that crazy time of year when you might as well just camp out in the mall parking lot rather than driving back and forth across town in some unending quest...
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How to Encourage Your Struggling Reader
When you have a reluctant or struggling reader on your hands, it fills you with anxiety and concern about how best to intervene. Studies show that as students move through the grades, voluntary reading...
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Blogs, Wikis, Forums & Podcasts
"Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities." Wikipedia The Internet has changed how we...
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Our Children: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
As our children reach their pre-teen and teen years, some parents start to notice that their children are not as active as they used to be. Researchers tell us that obesity rates are on the rise for children...
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Button Down Healthy Sleep Habits for Special Needs Kids
More children than ever before are being diagnosed with special needs "neurobiological disorders" such as ADHD, clinical depression...
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A Munsch Moment
As Honorary Chair of ABC CANADA Family Literacy Day™, Robert Munsch recently updated his "A Minute with Munsch" with fun new questions and answers, including his current favourite...
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Understanding the “New Math”
As a parent in Ontario, you may have noticed that your children are learning complex math concepts at an earlier age, or through different teaching methods than you did when you were in school. This is partly...
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Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me
Excerpted from NOBODY LIKES ME, EVERYBODY HATES ME: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them by Michele Borba Jossey-Bass Publishers. ISBN 0-7879-7662-8 What were you thinking?"...
